IASO is an open source data collection, campaign monitoring, and facility registry solution used mainly in health, currently in use in performance based financing projects, polio campaigns tracking, facility registries, and support to WFP beneficiaries tracking.

IASO provides a number of core features in support of continuous geospatial data management: a mobile application, a web dashboard, a matching feature to merge various data sources, a data science and scripting interface, and a seamless bi-directional integration with DHIS2. Here are some of the features:
- Structured data collection using the xlsform format as its core, but adding entities and org units (à la DHIS2)
- Managing as many referential lists as you want
- Facilitating the continuous data management of the master lists
- Easy to use by multiple teams in parallel
- Data sciences in support of georegistry management
- Fine-grained, geography-based accesses and traceability
- Planning pre-campaign, micro-planification survey from team dispatch coverage to survey design

It tries to fill a gap in the digital health ecosystem by providing at the same time features as a georegistry (holding the GIS referential, and improving it), large-scale data collection (the brunt of the work), and planification (allocate, using the GIS referential, data collection tasks to do).

Ministries of health, NGOs, WHO, Institute of Statistics, all institutions involved in doing data collection related to locations (typically, statistics that need to be collected offline, then aggregated on a regional level).

IASO was first created for a project in DRC to gather data about community health workers, where it is still used. It was then adopted to perform data collection for performance-based financing in at least 10 countries, with thousands of users. In many of these countries (Uganda, Burundi, Ivory Coast), we are in the process of hosting the software locally to ensure the sustainability of the projects. IASO has also been used as a georegistry tool for the Ministries of Health of DRC and Niger to update the master facility list of these two countries. Now, it is being used as the platform to encode data about polio vaccination campaigns at WHO Afro and to prepare maps allowing to follow the scope of these campaigns. See here for example: https://afro-rrt-who.hub.arcgis.com/pages/Campaigns(SIAs). Finally, it has been picked by the World Food Programme as the base on which to build their new conditional, on-demand assistance tool, with support for beneficiaries and complex workflows involving mobile devices and NFC cards.

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